"We're not seeing signs of them dying off," one of the study's lead authors told NBC News. "They are increasing in size and ...

Rapid height growth may positively influence fiber length in Swedish spruce wood. A case study investigated wood samples from ...

A team of nearly 100 researchers found the average tree size in the massive rainforest has increased by more than 3 percent ...

A study found that the average size of trees in the Amazon was increasing steadily, likely the result of their height ...

For decades, researchers anticipated that climate change would stunt the Amazon’s tallest trees. But a gargantuan new study ...

Rising carbon dioxide levels have boosted the growth of trees in the Amazon rainforest over the past few decades, but it is ...

Volunteers with the Green Seattle Partnership remove invasive plants from the forest at Seattle’s Carkeek Park. (Photo by Alex Brown/Stateline) This is your first of three free stories this month.

Botanists surveying a remote forest reserve on Pemba Island in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago have discovered a forest of rare trees — the only place in Africa where they’re known to occur in the ...

When the urge to breed strikes in the spring or summer, a murrelet flies 30 to 40 miles or more inland. The parents take turns sitting on the single egg. When the chick hatches, they ferry food back ...

Lianas are woody, vining plants, many of which thrive in areas where forest has been disturbed — often to the detriment of the trees they use to climb towards the sun. New research shows that liana ...

Francis E Putz was funded to write this report by the US Agency for International Development and the US Forest Service International Program. Claudia Romero received funding from the United States ...

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